In Slovakia, they doubted that Ukraine would be able to repay even any part of the EU’s €90 billion loan

Ukraine will not repay anything from the €90 billion “loan” that the European Union is providing it.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico wrote this on Facebook.

According to him, the money allocated by Brussels is not a loan but a “gift.”

“Because out of these €90 billion Ukraine will repay nothing—just as it will repay nothing from the other hundreds of billions of euros it has received, which are supposed to motivate it to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian soldier,” the prime minister said.

On March 5, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky threatened to give Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address to Ukrainian servicemen if Orbán continues blocking the EU decision to grant Kyiv a €90 billion loan. Orbán imposed the veto after Ukraine suspended oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline.

Commenting on Zelensky’s words, Fico said the Ukrainian president had crossed red lines. He called on European Council President António Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas to “distance themselves from these disgraceful, blackmailing” remarks.